LANCASTER – California Highway Patrol officers impounded the vehicle of an elderly man who drove several miles southbound in the northbound lanes of the Antelope Valley (14) Freeway early this morning, a CHP official said.

The man was first reported driving southbound in northbound lanes of the Antelope Valley Freeway at Avenue G at midnight, said CHP Officer A. Rubio in the Traffic Management Center.

CHP officers got the man to stop in the center median just south of Avenue L, Rubio said. His vehicle was impounded but he wasn’t arrested.

A video photographer at the scene said a sergeant told him the man was 91 years old and had not renewed his driver’s license, so he was driving without one when he was pulled over.

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